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Elementary school is not the place to learn about the subtleties of human cultural conflict.
I must have been doing something wrong then... Elementary school was exactly where the subtleties of human conflict first appeared to me. IMO, it's as good of a place as any to have some of your first (and due to that, perhaps the most important) encounters with what it means to exist within a society.
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You think that the only reason someone would disagree with you is because they're a literal KKK supporter, but this is somehow fighting against an authoritarian monoculture? Right. Had nothing to do with said clique's awful treatment of LGBT people, dubiously moral tactics, tendency to see anyone who disagrees as literal neo-Nazis, and utter refusal to brook any kind of internal dissent over anything at all, of cours…
> You think that the only reason someone would disagree with you is because they're a literal KKK supporter, but this is somehow fighting against an authoritarian monoculture? This is a position that you've pulled straight out of your own ass. Is there any reason to believe that the rest of your loggorhea is any more truthful?
You should be hellbanned for violating this gratuitous HN guideline: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."
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> When someone says something really stupid, often the best response really is mockery. That's not working for climate change, brexit, the Us election, etc etc etc. Maybe it's time to accept that mockery is a sub-optimal tactic that makes you feel good but is counter-productive.
It might have played slight part. But those have multiple dimensions to them. The worst thing that ever happened to fixing the pollution was calling it climate change. Making wildly inaccurate hyperbolic documentaries and politicizing it to such a degree that it became a defining aspect of our species. Where everyone needed to have an opinion on it, no different than their favorite brand of cereal. When greedy selfis…
I am staggered by the amount of people here who object to Imzy's "Be Nice"-policy on the basis that it limits free speech. To me that seems to be a rather flawed argumentation: a) The First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees free speech, explicitly does so in a political context ("Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech"). Imzy is not the US Congress, they don't have jurisdict…
Just one question: If a muslim says gay people should not be allowed to be married or a teacher or whatever, is this allowed?
> You are still welcome to express your opinions, even if they are offensive to some users. We want honest and open discussion to happen on Imzy from all sides. However, these opinions cross the line into malicious speech when they specifically incite violence or hatred, or make people fear you will act against them in a violent manner. We reserve the right to remove anything overtly malicious.
That said, each community has its own moderation policy on top of it. So people expressing an opinion the community leaders deem unacceptable may be banned from the specific community.
Kudos for Imzy but unfortunately (imo) these kind of initiatives are accompanied by attacks to websites that don't further restrict their users speech in a manner that is more savory for the media or politicians in question. These discussions about free speech always remind me of an event of the movie Amistad, which I will surmise very briefly: A number of people are sold into slavery, and in attempting to free thems…
Sure, and Imzy believes that you may exercise that right on some other site and not theirs.
'Imzy', the name is a bit hard to pronounce.
Imzy sounds interesting. The questions is how well the rules are written and enforced. If the rules are just "be nice," then the community may be pleasant, but it will be rife for censorship of any sort of dispute, establishment of "safe spaces," etc. I've been through reddit, usenet, and the chans, and I'm part of the programming culture (one perhaps more acidic than most), so I do detest censorship. (ie, you can't…
I think those are fairly clear. Granted there are always going to be grey areas. I agree that effective moderation is hard. I'm sure the site admins are cognizant of that.